OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana

Re:OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana by pas on Monday April 12, 2021 @08:31PM (#26786834)

The problem is, that AWS is not really sharing the internals of their fork. Big corps always say that there's no point in open sourcing their fork, because it depends so much on internal systems. Which might be true, but in case of AWS and infrastructure the possibility of an AWS competitor similarly implementing those internal services would probably help the market...

MySQL for example took a proprietary API (the mSQL API) and implemented an open software for it. Then Oracle bought MySQL. MariaDB started and it quickly dropped full compatibility. Options for the developers/users. Great.

AWS/GCP/Azure on the other hand distorts the market. Just as Google/Apple/MS fund Chrome/Safari/Edge development from other sources, thereby distorting the market, forcing browsers to be free as in beer. (Which arguably hurts the market.)

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Re:OpenSearch: AWS fork of Elasticsearch and Kibana by jrochkind1 on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @08:37AM (#26791358)

The announcement says "All of the software in the OpenSearch project is released under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2)."

You are suggesting this is not correct?

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